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Monday, September 15, 2014

Armenian Christianity Today

In this centenary year of the outbreak of the Great War, I'm giving a lecture on Remembrance Day in November on massacres of Eastern Christians during that war, beginning with the best known, viz., the Armenian Genocide, but covering also the attacks on Assyrian and Greek Christians, inter alia--to say nothing of what transpired in Russia thanks to the war and the Bolshevik revolution.

Armenian Christianity Today examines contemporary religious life and the
social, political, and cultural functions of religion in the
post-Soviet Republic of Armenia and in the Armenian Diaspora worldwide.
Scholars from a range of countries and disciplines explore current
trends and everyday religiosity, particularly within the Armenian
Apostolic Church (AAC), and amongst Armenian Catholics, Protestants and
vernacular religions. Themes examined include: Armenian grass-roots
religiosity; the changing forms of regular worship and devotion; various
types of congregational life; and the dynamics of social composition of
both the clergy and lay believers. Exploring through the lens of
Armenia, this book considers wider implications of "postsecular" trends
in the role of global religion.

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About Me

I am the editor of Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies; author of Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy; a tenured associate professor and chairman of the Dept. of Theology and Philosophy at the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana; and a subdeacon of the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church (UGCC) resident in the Eparchy of St. Nicholas of Chicago.